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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1997.

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HIS is the story of a pint of milk, the pint that Jack drank and Albert extracted from the cow, and of what happened to it in between.

I shadowed

this particular

pint all one

wet afternoon and night;

but millions

Private of a

Life

And at last our destination, the headquarters of one of the largest independent dairica in South-West London.

We

It was a strange scene. drew up by a bank in a back street. Inside was a glare of light and the noise of machinery. After the long journey up from. Hampshire, the noise and com- motion seemed. overwhelming.

PINT of MILK

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much the same experiences

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Milk is the most perishable and most necessary foodstuff to human beings particularly small ones.

Into London alone

four million pints are imported from the surrounding country-

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The

It

Jack's pint started in the rich pastures of a farm in Hamp- shire, halfway from Salisbury to the sea. The cow that nte the pasture

was a cross-bred

years.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.

THE FERRY MISHAP

It requires no great stretch of the imagination to perceive that the collision between two "Star"

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AT

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.SUNDAY.

QUEEN'S

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The cans were unloaded and the milk pourtd into huge cauldrons,

Walter is the next character where it was pasteurised to

germs and

Improve

on the scene. At six o'clock destroy sharp he arrives at the farm its keeping qualities. More men. with his lorry. He visits nine in white cants and caps move farma, and when fully loaded like creatures in a Wells fantasy controlling the different pro- has over three tons of milk on

cheerful, cesses. An astonishing robot the lorry. He is a

containers of varying sizes from

swarthy fellow in the forties, bottled and sealed the milk in. "This is a fine job," he says. consumers. Three pounds a week clear, and the round usually takes about seven hours, though his firm allows him more.

*

All through the night the bail- ing and bottling continued, until He started driving cars before at five, as the first light was the war, and drove an Army broaking through the rain, the lorry in France. His last job first roundsmen arrived to take was terrible. He was Home the milk on its final journey to

Jack or you.

The Government has decided to enforce compulsory parteuri- sation of milk in Hongkong, the announcement coming from the retiring Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, this week. Here is an article explaining the complicated process of bringing milk to your door--as carried out in England.

The owner of the dairy has been in the business for thirty- one years. One of his men re- members when a farm stood on its site. Twenty-two farms, all in Hampshire, supply it, and twenty-three roundsmen take the bottled milk out each morn-

go on foot.

*

Six

some

earn

one

Shorthorn. one of eighty that slung across his shoulders to times nineteen hours on the road ing. The turnover is 800 gul- grazed on a six-hundred-scre

the cooler, where the tempera- at a stretch, and he holds strong lons a day. Most of the milk- men still drive horse-carts. farm belonging to a man who ture of the milk is reduced from views on the methods by which

the outlying had lived there for over forty over 90degs, to 60degs, to keep some firms still succeed in evad- Three, who cover

it sweet. Then it is poured into ing the law and sweating their districts, have motor vans. His father had moved from a farm in Somerset in the ordinary old-fashioned cans im- drivers.

Walter drives beautifully, mersed in running water. -

Together they servo *

The farmer here is one of the never exceeding the limit, never The cow was a mixed brown larger producers feeding London, worried by dazzling on-coming

rather more than three pounds and-white, and five years old. He sells from 100 to 140 gallons headlights, always in complete 3,000 families, and they

a week each. Like every She had been bred on the farm, of milk a day, according to the control of his heavy load.

With him I travelled in the else I met on this trail, they all. worth twenty-eight season. He employs fourteen

a men, and pays them £24 a week, rainy night across Salisbury drink milk and believe that in it and was pounds. She yielded about

rent of their Plain and away up through the lies the secret of good health.

And so to Jack. He was still gallon and a half-twelve pints apart from the

of milk a day, and was milked cottages and certain perquisitics. pine and heather country to twice in the twenty-four hours He has three and a half thou- Camberley. It was a long drive, asleep when I called on him and in the farm, which he rents, and until eleven. Then Walter could But I know all about him. He at six in the morning and four sand pounds of capital invested and we did not reach the garage left his pint on the doorstep. in the afternoon.

for the last few years has about call it a day, and hand over the is ten years old, and his fathor Ferry Company vessels in mid-

This particular farm produced broken even in his accounts. lorry to another driver.

has a job in an insuranco office.. harbour on Wednesday evening Grade A milk only, so the cows

He drinks half a pint of milk be- fore he goes to school in the might easily have been a major were tested for tuberculosis,

morning and the other half pint Poultry, which he keeps on a catastrophe, resulting in heavy and the milk sampled for clean-

are half a million like him in at regular. intervals.

balance the budget. He seldom making the streets and tram- largely to the presence of mind

I saw her first at half-past takes a holiday, but manages an lines glitter in our headlights as London. I should like one day day's hunting or we neared London, and the great to introduce Albert and Walter of the coxswain of the "Night three on a wet afternoon. She occasional

He thinks that things cargo of milk cans clanking be- and Jack to each other. only were the was standing in a byre with shooting. Star," not

twenty, other animals, being might have been worse, and has hind as we passed over a bumpy

patch of road. hundreds of passengers aboard

washed and scrubbed by a young no wish to change his job. the ferry-bont safely landed, but man in a white linen cap and no injury was suffered by any coat-and-gum-boots. He was! the son of Albert, who milked one. The company has a record,her, and he had come back to in the matter of freedom from the farm after working in a mishaps, which is a credit to all baker's shop. concerned in the maintenance of

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A welcome cup of tea and off

loss of life. As it was, thanksliness by Government inspectors large scale, help considerably to again through the night, the rain before he goes to bed. There

News From Madrid

was one word which haurit- THERE

age within walking distance of to-day the predominant word is the farm, and is a great milk "gasolina," for petrol is dangerously drinker. He gets up at four scarce. every morning, and sometimes does not go to bed until eleven.

Basil Murray

by

VERNON BARTLETT

just back from the besieged capital

to

Albert is head cowman. He is a tall, sturdy man who, has a service which carries somic worked on his farm for thirty- ,000 people across the harbour four years. His wife was a every day. There have been milkmaid here before they had all men on the job. Now they minor accidents, but this is the have three song-one, who was first time in the history of the in the Navy, died following a

There are thousands of families | ctitute a tragedy which should win Company in which two of its motor accident-one is a brick-

layer; and one in the motor in-i ed every conversation in Ger- whose members are scattered about the world's sympathy rather than its bonts have come into collision.dustry. He earna a little over many during the inflation period- Spain unable to discover each other's horror?

or exchange. In Spain whereabouts. Remembering the tremendous two pounds a week, has a cot- "Valuta," growth-of the service, the huge numbers of passengers carried, the frequency with which the ferrios run during the rush hours, the crowded state of the harbour, with vessels of all types constantly on the move, and the occasional spells of bad weather

One result of the petrol shortage success of General Franco's propa- encountered, it says much for tne coxswains in charge of the march. One of them was is that Madrid is as crowded with ganda about "the Reds," which has boats that such a large measure whistling "John Peel" to the women and children as it has ever dried up the milk of human kind- rhythm of the milk-jets while I been. Thousands have been distri-ness to democratic countries, and villages, but partly to incompetence and distrust of immunity froin accident has watched them. They all wore buted among remote

those refugees who when he is fighting in the Interna- been enjoyed. In the instance white linen coats and caps and one doubts whether they really equal of the foreigner-in some cases even under notice, the spontaneous gum boots. It takes about eight streamed into the capital before the tional Column. aetion of the coxswain of the minutes for one of them to strip Fascist advance from Telavera and "Night Star," not only in mak-a cow.

When the pails are full Albert ing for the Hongkong waarf im- mediately after the impact, but carries them on a wooden yoke in readily appreciating the need

Besides, genuine efforts are being It is a tragedy that in the early made on the Spanish Government days some great international organl-side to educate and improve. The sation, reminiscent of the Hoover xe- summary "bumping-off" of suspect- Along the 220 miles of road be- lef mission in Belgium during the ed or disliked persons has, as far as

could discover, come to an end. could not be established tween Valencia and Madrid I saw war.

The ignorant guards who used to only two petrol stations open, and modify the personal miseries which the possibility that the pumps will so easily lead one to undervalue this hold you up at the entrance to every of n people to win village. in order to study your per The eighty cows on this farm be empty before one reaches them epic struggle

mits the wrong way up have dis- a team of four gives a strange excitement to the freedom. are milked by

The failure to establish such an appeared. organisation la due partly to the men. They work in unison. journey across that majestic, wild The ting of milk as it spurts parched country. into the pails makes a song like

in numbers

Toledo.

The civilians will not leave partly

because there is not enough trans- port to take them away and, by re- malning, they make transport scarcer than ever.

Their place, when necessary, in

men who have been recalled from the front to maintain order.

Thiess articles refer only to the Government side in the Civil War, for I have not visited the other, and prefer to avoid the easy method of writing down unconfirmed ns established fact,

taken by smart and effetent young

rumour

But there is no doubt that General Franco is having much the game

I returned to Valer cla carly the and discovered the other morning second bed in my roam accupied by a man I had never seen before,.

He turned out to be a Basque from difficulties with his Falongista and of proceeding to the side of the of people who patronise the ferry

Pampelona sleeping between sheets Carllats os Senor Caballero with his for the first time in four months. Communiata and Syndicalists. wharf not being used in the service day in and day out prob.

If one did report rumour, one In Valencia the longest queue I He awoke after eighteen hours- regular service, is worthy of the fably give little thought to the

was waiting to sce

during which there had been two would assert that a prominent Falon- highest commendation. With a excellent facilities which they came across

Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times,"

air-raid alarms with warning sirens gist leader has recently been arrest- sinking vessel on his hands, had enjoy, for we are all more or less but some queues in Madrid wait all to which I should have thought onlyed, and that anti-foreign feeling is he made for the other side, not prone to take these things for night for a ration of cool.

the dead could remain Indifferent for stronger in Salamanca than it is

in Valencia, [only would the service have been granted. It is only right and This is less terrible in Spain, and told me his history.

Whether the Valencia Government Ells mother was a Socialist, his held up, but other consequences proper, however, that, after a where streets are, above all, places conversation, than it would be in of a serious character might mishap such as that of Wednes-England, where they are used only father was a member of Gil Robles's wiil win, I do not know. But I de was know, with even deeper certainty have resulted. All in all, the day evening, due appreciation to enable you to get from one house Catholic Party, his brother

fighting for Generni Franco, and he than on my last visit four months would be a navigating staff certainly did a snould be placed on record of 10 another.

It is nevertheless a great hard-himself was a Communist who had ago, that its defeat splendid piece of work, to which the admirable manner in which ship which the people accept with been in almost every major battle of tragedy graver than any other which has been suffered by democracy sincò the Civil War. tho fortunate outcome of the the navigating staff coped with resignation because they prefer the discomfort and the danger from on

certainties of migration.

urises from such circumstances con-make the world safe for it.

collision for those on board is a altuation charged with exccasional bomb to the terrible un The distrust and cruelty which the end of the war which was for primarily due. The thousands tremely serious possibilities.